Industrial Revolution
Scientific Revolution
Armed Forces Slang
Hindi Roots
Foreign Impact
100
What fields did the Industrial Revolution affect?
Fashion, technology, and medicine
100
What suffixes did the Scientific Revolution create?
-ologies and -onomies (ex. Biology, Taxonomy)
100
A "thingumajig" described what?
A technological device or piece of machinery
100
Name a word with Hindi roots.
Possible Answers: Shampoo, pajamas, juggernaut
100
The counting numbers between 13 to 19 are similar to what language?
Germanic languages
200
What is an example of how a word's meaning was changed as a result of the Industrial Revolution? (hint: hair cloth)
Crinoline
200
Neologisms were used to describe what types of things? (Name 2)
Possible Answers: Equipment, materials, technology, machinery
200
"Lousy" and "Crummy" referred to what?
Being infested by lice
200
Where do many Hindi equivalents originate from?
Sanskrit
200
Give an example of english words that came from french roots.
Possible Answers: baguette, judge, jury
300
Many medical terms have roots from what language?
Latin
300
________ were created because many ideas could not be described with the current language.
Neologisms
300
What term can mean "fall asleep," but originally meant "broke down?"
Conk out
300
What is one way Hindi words entered English?
The British Raj
300
Which fields did Latin roots affect?
Medical and scientific
400
When are inventions added to the english language?
When they become common
400
Some examples of neologisms are? (Name 3)
Possible Answers: Oxygen, nuclear, vaccine, steamship, horsepower, railway train, typewriter, airplane
400
A faulty shell is called what?
A dud
400
Words that entered the English language usually had different ________, _________, or _________.
Meanings, spellings or pronunciations.
400
What language affected trade items?
Arabic
500
Many words were given new ___________, or changed to describe new things.
meanings
500
A lung disease caused by inhalation of silicon dust is?
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
500
How did all these terms get into the language?
Soldiers from World Wars 1&2 brought them back from the wars
500
Borrowings dating back to the colonial period are often labeled as ___________.
Anglo-Indian
500
List the languages that majorly affected the english language. (hint: list all the languages in the foreign impact section.)
Germanic languages, French, Latin, Spanish, Arabic
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